The Trivia Quiz Returns!!!

.....in a slightly different form. This time around, I'm going to list 15 debut albums. Can you tell me who the artists are without Googling? I deliberately strayed outside my own taste in music to give a wider range of you a shot at it. Here we go-

1. Cold Spring Harbor (Billy Joel)
   


2. Freak Out! (Zappa/Mothers of Invention)
   


3. Empty Sky (Elton John)
   


4. Truth (Jeff Beck Group)
   


5. White Music (XTC)
   


6. On Through the Night (Def Leppard)
   


7. Los Angeles (X)
   


8. Murmur (R.E.M.)
   


9. For You (Prince)
   


10. Children of the Future (Steve Miller Band)
    


11. Ring Ring (ABBA)
    


12. Tales of Mystery & Imagination (Alan Parsons Project)
    


13. Pretties For You (Alice Cooper)


14. This Was (Jethro Tull)
    


15. Writer (Carole King)
    

Do you have any idea how difficult it is to find 15 debut albums that weren't just titled with the band or artist's name? Yeesh.

Tuesday Ten Trivia: Sly & The Family Stone

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This week’s ten is in honor of the re-emergence of the reclusive Sly Stone. David Kamp interviews he of the (formerly) luxuriant Afro and riveted leather jumpsuit in this month’s Vanity Fair - Sly Stone’s Higher Power



What was the band named before becoming Sly & The Family Stone?


What Bay Area band’s #15 hit did Sly produce?


Which S&FS single effectively invented 1970s funk?


What was the band’s first Top Ten hit?


What was the band’s first release to hit #1 on both the pop and R&B charts?


What was their last release to do the same?


Where did Sly marry Kathy Silva in 1974?


Who served as MC at the wedding festivities?


Who did Sly once cut as opening act from the bill because the audience better received him?


What did Sly do to cause a riot at a free concert in Chicago?

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Tuesday Ten Trivia - Talking Heads

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This week’s Ten showcases Talking Heads, arguably the most influential of any artsy post-punk American band.


Where did David Byrne and Chris Frantz meet?

Who did Talking Heads tour Europe with before the release of their first album?

What did XTC's Andy Partridge say of the band after seeing them on that tour?

What band performed Talking Heads’ entire Remain In Light album at their 10-31-96 concert in Atlanta?

Who produced Remain In Light?

Which B-52s album did David Byrne produce?

What Georgia folk artist was commissioned to paint the cover of 1985’s Little Creatures?

What former member of La Belle served as a Talking Heads vocalist?

Who choreographed the video for Once In A Lifetime?

TRUE or FALSE? The footage for Stop Making Sense was culled from several different shows.
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Tuesday Ten Trivia - The Allman Brothers Band

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This week’s Ten concentrates on the kings of southern rock (by far) who also brought a tinge of psychedelia to their act:

Duane Allman played on whose 1971 debut album (produced by Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner)?

Where and when did the Allman Brothers Band record its first live album (venue and year)?

Name one of the two inspirations for the album title Eat A Peach.

Both Duane Allman and Berry Oakley died in motorcycle accidents within a year of each other. What else is coincidental about their deaths?

Chuck Leavell, Lamar Williams and Jai Johnny Johanson went on to form what band?

Duane Allman was the primary session guitarist at what studio?

TRUE or FALSE: When Gregg Allman’s personal manager was busted for drugs, Gregg testified on his behalf.

What occupation did Gregg Allman plan to pursue prior to the formation of the Allman Brothers Band?

What Muscle Shoals soulman began calling Duane Allman “Sky Man”?

Who is Elijah Blue?

Tuesday Ten Trivia

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TRUE or FALSE?

The Carpenters were once booked for three nights as the opening act for Steppenwolf, getting fired after the first night.

Cher ended her marriage to Gregg Allman in 1979 after he had passed out in a Mexican restaurant, face first on a plate of chicken quesadillas.

The Who’s rock anthem My Generation took six weeks to break into the Top Ten on the U.S. record charts.

At a 1972 concert, Chuck Berry kicked Keith Richards off stage for playing too loud.

At the end of the Beatles’ song A Day in the Life an ultrasonic whistle was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.

The first record to reach number one in 34 different countries was The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

The music for the Procol Harum hit Whiter Shade Of Pale was written by Johann Sebastian Bach.

In many U.S. states there is a law against dancing to The Star Spangled Banner.

Ritchie Valens 1958 million-seller La Bamba is a traditional song picked up by the people of Mexico after they heard homesick African slaves singing about their village.

Al Kooper came up with the name for his new band from Winston Churchill’s quote, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”


Cheaters need not Google. The answers are located somewhere on this page:

http://www.classicbands.com/trivia2.html
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